An experienced natural history and botanical illustrator, Lizzie’s work appears in books and magazines around the world, on postage stamps and mugs.
She lives very happily in Hay on Wye, and works her garden studio surrounded by plants and birds.
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This film is of me unboxing the enamel lapel pins created by @GSJJ.com, based on my botanical illustrations of an Oak leaf and of a Fly agaric fungus (which I show alongside the pins).
It’s very cool to be able to make your art and illustrations wearable.
Create your own lapel pin badges using your artwork by following the link:
https://bit.ly/4eAypiQ
GS-JJ provided the lapel pins free of charge in exchange for the creation of this unboxing film.
The company offer free shipping, low prices, and no minimum number.
GS JJ make soft and hard enamel pins, antique pins, 3D and cut out pins, and can make them shiny or sandblasted. They offer shiny, antique, dual, and rainbow platings.
Follow them on Instagram @GSJJ_pins
Music by Bensound
License code: N7SKYLTISFIMHZOD
#lapelpins #customlapelpins #botanicalillustration
This week`s blog is about a fascinating trip to @cranfieldcolours paint and printing inks factory :
https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2024/10/a-visit-to-cranfield-paint-factory/
It was like living an episode of "Inside the Factory", or like I`d gone through the Round Window on Playschool (showing my age...)
Not only was it really interesting to learn about paint manufacture, but there was something deeply satisfying about seeing the massive amounts of paint being carefully made and packaged.
Thanks to Lucy Warry of www.agnes.community for organising, and to Michael Craine and all the staff for such a warm welcome.
#paintmanufacturing #cranfieldcolours #ColourLikeNoOther #artsupplies #illustratorperks #makingpaint
Another day another apple.
I`ve found the best way to tackle these fruit is with stippling (thanks @pollyolearyartist !). Still tricky subjects, mind you. But at least the studio smells glorious and autumnal.
#sciart ##naturalhistoryilliustration #botanialillustration #botanicalart #apples #appleart
Lizzie Harper Newsletter October 2024
My latest newsletter talks about recent jobs like illustrating native plants of Montserrat and adding to the Welsh Marches Pomona, working on fold-out identification guides and information boards. Teaching sessions for 2025, links to blogs and films, and the chance to buy original illustrations are also included.
This is another recent botanical illustration - the Red huckleberry Vaccinium parvifolium
A lot of fun to illustrate as the leaves are pretty straight forward, and shiny red berries are always a lot of fun.
Growing in a north American woodland near you...and they`re edible.
#botanicalart #botanicalillustration #redhuckleberry #huckleberry #vaccinium #sciart #naturalscienceillustration #naturalhistoryillustration
Latest blog out is the start of a new series about common UK wild flower families. First up is the Buttercup family, Ranunculaceae:
https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2024/09/wildflower-families-ranunculaceae-the-buttercups/
If you want to know what plants belong to this family (and it ain`t just buttercups), and why, take a look.
#buttercup #ukwildflowers #botany #botanicalillustration #ranunculaceae #wildflowerfamilies #flowerfamilies #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #Ranunculus
Work in progress....the first of 2 Morgan Sweet apples for the revised Matches area Pomona.
Apples are a whole world of new specifics and terminology to learn. I`m loving it.
I`m also posting this for my friend Lynn because I was wittering on to her about it on the phone just now.
Back to it, more russetting and then the second view of the Morgan Sweet, focusing on the eye with reflexed sepals, and the basin (with limited pleating). Ahem.
#pomona #apple #pomme #marchespomona #fruit #fruitpainting #botanicalillustration
Recently completed this illustration of the Thimbleberry Rubus parviflorus.
It`s a north American species and has distinctive semi hemispherical berries. My sister in law tells me they taste of rhubarb, they`re certainly edible.
It`s one of a series of American edible berries that will be made into nature stickers to promote hiking and the great outdoors by a client.
#botanicalart #botanicalillustration #thimbleberry #rubus #rubusparviflorus #wdibleplants #berries
